JOAN SNYDER

A Year in the Painting Life

September 16 - October 30, 2010

BETTY CUNINGHAM GALLERY 541 WEST 25TH ST NEW YORK NY 10001 212 242 2772 BETTYCUNINGHAMGALLERY.COM WOL, 2010 Oil, acrylic, paper mach­é, mud, cloth, seeds and glass beads on linen 36 x 84 inches 91.4 x 213.3 cm

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Brooklyn 2010, 2010 Acrylic, pastel, burlap, fabric, herbs and rosebuds on linen 54 x 72 inches 137.2 x 182.9 cm

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Big Blue Two, 2010 Oil, acrylic, paper mach­é, herbs, twigs and seeds on linen 63 x 96 inches 160 x 243.8 cm

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Rosebuds/White Field, 2009 Acrylic and rosebuds on linen 48 x 63 inches 121.9 x 160 cm

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Oh April, 2010 Oil, acrylic, burlap, fabric, pastel, seeds and dirt on linen 54 x 210 inches 137.2 x 533.4 cm

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The Fall with Other Things in Mind, 2009 Oil, acrylic, paper mach­é, cloth, seeds, dried flowers and herbs on linen 54 x 72 inches 137.2 x 182.9 cm

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The Other Side of the Mountain, 2009 Oil, acrylic, paper mach­é, cloth, dried flowers and rosebuds on linen 31 x 70 inches 78.7 x 177.8 cm

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Ode to B, 2009 Oil, acrylic, paper mach­é, cloth and pastel on linen 65 ¾ x 76 inches 167 x 193 cm

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New Moonfield, 2008 Acrylic, burlap, silk, cheesecloth, wooden beads and paper mach­é on linen 54 x 78 inches 137.2 x 198.1 cm

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BIOGRAPHY 1940 Born in Highland Park, NJ 1962 A.B. from Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ 1966 M.F.A. from Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, NJ The artist lives and works in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY

AWARDS 2007 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (2000 - 2011) 2011 Dancing with the Dark: Prints by Joan Snyder 1963-2010, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2010 Joan Snyder: A Year in the Painting Life, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Joan Snyder: Seeds and Blossoms, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady, NY Joan Snyder: Paintings and Prints, SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Joan Snyder: Selected Paintings 1999-2007, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2008 Joan Snyder …and seeking the sublime, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Are Mine, 2010 Joan Snyder: One Blue Sky, Ten Political Paintings 1970-2008, Oil, acrylic, glitter, rosebuds Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA and burlap on panel 30 x 30 inches 2007 Joan Snyder, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY 76.2 x 76.2 cm 2005-06 Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969-2005, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, traveled to the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA 2005 Joan Snyder: Two Rivers, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Joan Snyder: Sigh and Selected Works, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 2004 Joan Snyder, Women Make Lists, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY Joan Snyder, Works on Paper, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Joan Snyder: The Nature of Things, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Joan Snyder: In Love with Paint, Muroff Kotler Gallery, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY 2001 Joan Snyder: Primary Fields, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Joan Snyder: Kaddish / Requiem, The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA Joan Snyder: In Times of Great Disorder, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

20 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2000 - 2011) SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 2010-11 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH New York, NY Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2008 The New American Sublime: Landscape and Abstraction by Contemporary Painters, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, ID Saratoga Springs, NY Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC 2006-08 Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, curated by Connie Butler, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; P.S.1 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Vancouver Art Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI High Times, Hard Times, New York Painting 1967 – 1975, traveled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Greensboro, NC; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Center, Washington, D.C.; National Academy Museum, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY New York, NY Women Only! In Their Studios, traveled to Museum of Texas Tech Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ University, Lubbock, TX; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN; Avampato Discovery The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum, Inc., Charleston, WV; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, University of MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA Miami, Miami, FL; Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Roanoke, VA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2007 From the Inside Out: Feminist Art Then and Now, Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY The National Academy, New York, NY Made in America, The Washington Print Club 19th Biennial, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Washington, D.C Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY 2006 How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975, Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers New York Public Library Print Room, New York, NY University, New Brunswick, NJ Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY 2005 The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2003 About Painting, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Off the Top: The Rutgers Tradition, Bill Maynes Gallery, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA New York, NY Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA 2002 Personal and Political: The Women’s Art Movement, 1969-1975, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Painting: A Passionate Response, curated by Michael Walls, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA The Painting Center, New York, NY The Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2000 Mysticism and Desire, Patricia Hamilton, Los Angeles, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, traveled Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KA to Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Gainesville, FL, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV

21 This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibtiion of Joan Snyder: A Year in The Painting Life by at the Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York September 16 - October 30, 2010

Photography: Jack Abraham, Nancy Donskoj, Pete Mauney, Bryan Whitney

Design: Betty Cuningham Gallery

Printing: Advanced Printing, New York

Catalogue © 2010 Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York

ISBN 13: 978-0-9785226-9-8 ISBN: 0-9785226-9-9

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